Along with alternative-fuel buses, Blue Bird became the first school bus manufacturer to develop fully electric school buses; during the 1990s, technology limited its development to the prototype stage. In 1994, the company developed a battery-powered school bus in an effort with Westinghouse Electronic Systems for a school district in ...

The Blue Bird All American is a series of buses produced by American school bus manufacturer Blue Bird Corporation (originally Blue Bird Body Company) since 1948. Originally developed as a yellow school bus (its most common configuration), versions of the All American have been designed for a wide variety of applications, ranging from the Blue ...

2024年7月5日 · Blue Bird became a pioneer in the flat front bus in the East and Midwest. The West Coast already was pioneering the same approach, but more ambitiously with the legendary Crown and Gillig buses, with their mid-engine underfloor engines (Gillig CC …

This 1927 Blue Bird is the oldest surviving school bus in America. Albert Luce, Sr., built his first bus in 1925 by mounting a purchased wood body to a Ford truck frame. The body could not withstand the Georgia roads. Luce, convinced he could make a better bus, applied a steel framework under the wood body.

What would soon become Blue Bird's most successful offering ever, the first-generation Blue Bird Vision was introduced in 2003 as the replacement for the conventional Blue Bird CV200 school bus, which had utilized third-party chassis from Freightliner, General Motors, and Navistar.

2024年12月3日 · The oldest surviving school bus in the United States is the 1927 Blue Bird, built by Albert L. Luce, Sr.:

2003年3月2日 · When you talk about the door I do not think it was a Blue Bird bus, they did not have a door that angled, Superior and Ward did. I would look on school bus sites for older pictures and try to identify the bus. A good one would be School Bus Explorer, their website is www.busexplorer.com/SchoolBus this would be your best option for identifying it.

2012年10月11日 · For the Blue Bird (as well as the other school buses like Superior, Thomas, Wayne), I prefer the conventionnal models, back when we got GMC, Chevrolet, Ford, Dodge and International front ends and engines with Allison automatic transmission. Someone posted some pictures and audio of a 1986 Blue Bird GMC with the Allison transmission.

The Blue Bird All American is an American school bus produced by the Blue Bird Corporation (originally Blue Bird Body Company). Introduced in 1948, the All American is the longest-produced transit-style (Type D) school bus by an American manufacturer.

This 1927 Blue Bird is the oldest surviving school bus in America. Albert Luce, Sr., built his first bus in 1925 by mounting a purchased wood body to a Ford truck frame. The body could not...